... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Clandestine Caucus) Special Issue Last | Contents | Next The Clandestine Caucus Post-war: private sector propaganda begins to regroup As the war ended domestic politics returned to normal. The propaganda organisations of domestic capital restarted, though without the frenzy which had marked the post 1918 period. Their big issue was the threat of nationalisation of companies. The so-called Mr Cube Campaign of 1949/50, against the possibility of the nationalisation of the sugar industry, spent an estimated 250,000 in that year.(44) The campaign had been jointly organised by the sugar company, Tate and Lyle ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last | Contents | Next Issue 44 Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media Andy Mullen See note (1 ) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain's first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union (EU), rather than Common Market, European Economic Community (EEC), ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last | Contents | Next Issue 55 Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53 The Information Research Department Andrew Defty Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2004, £23.99, p/b Thinking about this book, I wondered why people like me have been so interested in IRD for the last 30 years. There are two reasons, I think. The first is that way back in the 1970s, when information about the British secret state was virtually non-existent, some articles were published about IRD. They got onto the agenda when there ...

... Lobster special issue The Clandestine Caucus Anti socialist campaigns 1996 and operations in the slightly amended British Labour Movement since and expanded 2012 the war Robin Ramsay Part 1: Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and the state U.S . influence after the war Post-war: private sector propaganda begins to regroup Common Cause and IRIS Part 2 Atlantic Crossings Anti-communism as a profession: The Information Research Department The subversion hunters and the social democrats in the 1970s The Crozier operations Was there a 'communist threat'? Books and articles cited The Clandestine Caucus Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in the British labour movement since the war. Robin Ramsay 1996/slightly amended and ...

... Mad men? Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Nicholas O'Shaughnessy Routledge, 2017, £29.99 (p /b ) Colin Challen The title of this book is both arresting, yet banal. And very chilling. To deal with the last point first: the twenty first century's highly developed concept and practice of marketing is that you identify your market, then you quantify it and then seek profitable ways of satisfying it (either financially or electorally). So it doesn't, initially, really seem appropriate to use the word 'marketing' in the context of 'selling' Nazism. It is difficult to imagine Hitler organising focus groups to see how he ...

... 43) Summer 2002 Last | Contents | Next Issue 43 Feedback From Edward Herman I was taken aback by the review of Russell Kick's book, You Are Being Lied To, by Phil Edwards, in Lobster 42 . It contains a venomous and completely idiotic attack on Noam Chomsky (and indirectly on me as a co-author of the propaganda model), and it has other deficiencies as well. Let me elaborate. Edwards quotes Kick on the meaning of a lie, which Kick says is 'elastic', encompassing deliberate falsehoods, lies of omission, an untruth 'that the speaker thinks is true', lies that are simply universally believed, etc. Then Edwards quotes Kick ...

... Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, stated "there is participation on an increasing scale in the US of three groups whose potential impact should be cause for concern. They are the churches, the 'loyalist opposition' and, perhaps most important, the unpoliticised public". He followed this by organising the propaganda campaign against the American Peace Movement's 'Ground Zero Week'. (1 ) Rostow was equally concerned about the growing unilateralist movement and so helped initiate a similar propaganda exercise in Britain, aimed at neutralising the efforts of CND. It would take three forms: mobilising public opinion, working within the Churches, and a 'dirty tricks' operation ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 28 BOOKS Don't Mention The War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media David Miller, Pluto Press, London, 1994, 14.95 (paper) 40.00 (cloth) In his introduction Miller thanks his 'colleagues at the Glasgow University Media Group', from whence came the pioneering studies of the way the British media handle politically sensitive events, such as Bad News, More Bad News and Really Bad News. That, with the book's title, tells you pretty much what to expect. What it does not tell you about ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last | Contents | Next Issue 24 Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the news in an age of propaganda Edward S. Herman (with illustrations by Matt Wuerker) South End Press, Boston, USA, 1992, $13.00 (USA). The passing of the Bush regime is a good time to pause and express thanks to one of those American writers who have tenaciously dug out the reality behind the business-sponsored counter-revolution that has largely formed the politics of the past decade. In that time, Ed Herman has scoured beneath the public relations veneer of U ...

... -Croft and his little group of MPs and Peers re-joined the Tory Party. Like the BWL, the National Party preached 'class peace', and these two groups, largely funded and supported by the same members of the ruling elites, are almost a right and left 'face' of the anti-socialist, 'class peace' propaganda movement which dominated much of British domestic politics in the decade after the Russian revolution. (5 ) These 'class peace' groups form almost half of the 20 or so groups discussed in White's wonderful essay. For some of them - the Christian Counter-Bolshevik Crusade, the Anti-Bolshevik League of Great Britain, the Moderate Party ...